Word Meanings - GLYOXALIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or designating, an aldehyde acid, intermediate between glycol and oxalic acid.

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• GLYCOLYL
  A divalent, compound radical, CO.CH2, regarded as the essential radical of glycolic acid, and a large series of related compounds.
• GLYCOLURIC
  Pertaining to, derived from, glycol and urea; as, glycoluric acid, which is called also hydantoic acid.
• ALDEHYDE
  A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain of oxidation. Note: The aldehydes are intermediate between the alcohols and acids, and differ from the alcohols in having two less hydrogen atoms in the molecule, as
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• GLYCOL
  A thick, colorless liquid, C2H4 2, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds. It is a diacid alcohol, intermediate between ordinary ethyl alcohol and glycerin. Any one of the large class of diacid alcohols, of which
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• OXALIC
  Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, sorrel, or oxalis; specifically, designating an acid found in, and characteristic of, oxalis, and also certain plant of the Buckwheat family. Oxalic acid , a dibasic acid, existing combined in oxalis
• GLYCOLURIL
  A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, obtained by the reduction of allantoïn.
• INTERMEDIATELY
  In an intermediate manner; by way of intervention.
• INTERMEDIATE
  Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors. Intermediate state , the state or condition of the soul
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• DESIGNATORY
  Serving to designate; designative; indicating.
• GLYCOLIDE
  A white amorphous powder, C4H4O, obtained by heating and dehydrating glycolic acid.
• DESIGNATION
  1. The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication. 2. Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction. 3. That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation. The usual designation of
• GLYCOLIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, glycol; as, glycolic ether; glycolic acid. Glycolic acid , an organic acid, found naturally in unripe grapes and in the leaves of the wild grape , and produced artificially in many ways, as by the oxidation
• DESOXALIC
  Made or derived from oxalic acid; as, desoxalic acid.
• PARALDEHYDE
  A polymeric modification of aldehyde obtained as a white crystalline substance.
• GLYOXALIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, an aldehyde acid, intermediate between glycol and oxalic acid.
• ACETALDEHYDE
  Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• PREDESIGNATE
  A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.
• OXALDEHYDE
  See GLYOXAL
• METALDEHYDE
  A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same.